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DEPLOY YOUR DJANGO PROJECT ON

DIGITALOCEAN
August 28, 2020
Categories: blog
Tags: Django on digital ocean

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DJANGO WITH APACHE AND MOD_WSGI ON UBUNTU

Digital Ocean provide you a vps server. There you can create your droplet . Droplet means a computer or cpu or a machine . And
put a root password and choose a data center and choose Ubuntu and create the droplet.Wait some times and it will create a
Droplet for you.

How to deploy your Django project with DigitalOcean

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QQ_hNDKIbxY

CONSOLE AND ALLOW OPEN SSH

After create the droplet then Open the console ( click on right side on your droplet ). Then you have to login with root and root
password (which you have enter for create droplet ).

Login : root
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password: enter your root password

Now check the rewall status

ufw status

You have to enable it. Type the command below on your cmd

ufw enable

now you have to allow OpenSSH . Type the command on your cmd

ufw allow OpenSSH

Now close the console And open command prompt or terminal in your computer

NOW FOLLOW THE STEPS TO RUN DJANGO

After open Command prompt or terminal in your computer then type the below command and login with username is root and
password is your root’s password

ssh root@ip_adress

IP address is provided by digital ocean

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FOLLOW THE STEPS FOR PYTHON 3 OR LATEST VERSION

Now you have to update your app rst. so type the below command :

sudo apt-get update

Now wait sometimes and now you have to install python 3 apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 . So type the below command :

sudo apt-get install python3-pip apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

Now you have to install virtual environment for python 3 . So type the following command :

sudo pip3 install virtualenv

Now create a directory for your project ( here directory name is myproject )

mkdir ~/myproject
cd ~/myproject

Now you are inside is in myproject . here create a python environment for your project :

virtualenv projectenv

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Now you have to activate the environment:

source projectenv/bin/activate

Now install Django :

(projectenv) $ pip install django

UPLOAD YOUR DJANGO PROJECT VIA FTP FILE MANAGER

Install the FTP le manager ( File zilla ) from google and open it then you have to put host username and password and port .

host: your ip adress or domain

username: root

password: root password

port : 22

Now after successfully connected go to myproject ( go to directory of your python env ) . And just upload your django project ( you
can drag and drop from your computer )

EDIT PROJECT SETTINGS

go to settings.py in your django project and allowed host or ip adress . Then you have to set a static directory and Static root

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ALLOWED_HOSTS =
. . .

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')

Now you can migrate your database and create a superuser .But migrate your database is recommended just type : python
manage.py migrate

And now go to the directory of manage.py and Just type:

(projectenv) $ python manage.py collectstatic

Now you can run with local host . But at rst you have to allow the 8000 port :

(projectenv) $ sudo ufw allow 8000

(projectenv) $ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Now deactivate the environment . because here we will run django by apache

(projectenv) $ deactivate

CONFIGURE APACHE SERVER

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Now that your Django project is working, we can con gure Apache as a front end.Now you have to edit con guration for Apache
server . At rst go to sites available in Apache 2 folder and you have to edit 000-default.conf le :

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Or You can use File zilla ( FTP Fie manager ) and edit 000-default.conf . Add this code and commet out the document root at rst (
recommended) :

Alias /static /..static directory.../static

<Directory /....static directory....../static>

Require all granted

</Directory>

<Directory /...directory of wsgi.py ...../myproject>

<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>

WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-home=/.... directory of python env....../myprojectenv python-path=/....

directory of manage.py .../
WSGIProcessGroup myproject
WSGIScriptAlias / /.... directory of wsgi file ..../wsgi.py

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NOW ALLOW APACHE FULL AND YOUR PROJECT AND DATABASE

Now you have to add some rule :

chmod 664 ~/myproject/db.sqlite3

sudo chown :www-data ~/myproject/db.sqlite3
sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'

Now you can check syntax error by following command :

sudo apache2ctl configtest

Now restart the Apache server by following command :

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Or For restart the server you can type ( Optional ):

sudo service apache2 restart

Now you can run your Django project successfully . And also you can add a custom domain

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